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LIVE AT FIVE: 08.25.14

Posted on | August 25, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Hamas Director Of Finance Killed By Israeli Airstrike

Israel warmed Gaza residents to evacuate buildings used for Hamas operations

Muhammad al-Ghoul dies of poor social choices and air-to-ground missile strike (mostly the latter)
Vehicle explosion reveals bags of American money
Hamas promises to aim only at military targets if they get more precise weapons


Northern California Rocked By 6.0 Earthquake
172 injured; widespread damage, especially to wineries

Journalist Theo Curtis Released By Al-Nusra Jihadis
Held for two years by Syrian rebels



POLITICS
Senator McCain Gets More Support For Warhawk Stance On ISIS, But Will Obama Follow?

Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John and his sidekick Lindsey Graham

Criticizes administration for lack of strategy


Rand Paul Says Voters Will Reject “War Hawk” Hillary


Obama Orders Review Of Federal Role In Arming State, Local Police


Healthcare Fears Loom Large In Gay Marriage Cases

Unsealed Documents Show WI Prosecutors’ Broad Search Tactics Against Conservatives

Obama’s Vacation Ends, But Not The Criticism

Administration Sends WH Aides To Ferguson Funeral

MI Lt. Gov. Calley Beats Back Tea Party Challenge At State Convention

Harry Reid Apologizes For Remarks At Asian Business Group Event, Loses Endorsement Anyway



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Continues To Slide Amid Global Oversupply: WTI $93.65, Brent $102.13
Burger King In Talks To Buy Tim Hortons
Dollar Gains While Euro Stocks, Bonds Gain On Stimulus
Fee-Happy Hotels Charging Extra For Services
Invasive Insect Threatens Iconic Florida Citrus
Goldman Sachs Agrees To $1.2 Billion Settlement Of Mortgage Bond Claims
Sony’s PlayStation Network Back Online After Weekend Hack Attack
NSA, GCHQ Agents “Leak” Tor Bugs
Chicoms’ Own OS To Replace Windows, Android Expected To Hit Desktops In October
Facebook Has The Most Used App, But Google Dominates The Rest Of Top Ten List
If Destiny Is The Future Of Gaming, Is That Good Or Bad?



SPORTS
Puig’s Basepath Blunder Hands Mets First Triple Play Since 2010

David Wright gives Lucas Duda a fist bump after Duda’s second homer

Failure to learn from mistakes aborts badly needed rally as Dodgers get clobbered 11-3

Angels Salvage Final Game Of Series Against A’s

Phoenix Mercury Sweep LA Sparks Out Of Playoffs

Broncos Kicker Draws Four-Game Suspension For Beer

Reds Hang On To Beat Braves 5-3

Phillies Take Finale Against Cardinals, 7-1

Fish Flop Against Rockies In Rubber Game, 7-4

Wada Flirts With No-No As Cubs Edge O’s 2-1

Tribe Tops Astros 3-1

Nationals Rally Against Giants’ Bullpen, Deliver 14-6 Beatdown



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Actor & Director Richard Attenborough Dies, 90

Steven Spielberg and Lord Attenborough at the premiere of “Jurassic Park”

Appeared in “Brighton Rock”, “Jurassic Park”, and “The Great Escape”, among others; directed “Young Winston”, “Gandhi”, and “A Chorus Line”. Cause of death not yet announced


Rap Boss Suge Knight Shot Multiple Times As VMA Party Turns Violent

Matt Bomer To Guest On “American Horror Story: Freak Show”

Josh Charles Expecting First Child With Sophie Flack

Zooey Displaying Plenty Of PDA During Lunch Date With Producer

Backup Dancer For Nicki Minaj Bitten By Snake During VMA Rehearsal

Ian Somerhalder, Nikki Reed Move In Together After Three Months Of Dating



FOREIGNERS
Hundreds Dead As ISIS Takes Syrian Air Base
Could Foley’s Executioner Be British “Hiphop Jihadi”?
Hollande Asks PM To Form New Government
Egypt Denies Libya Intervention
Four Inmates Killed – Two Beheaded – In Brazil Prison Riot
Thai King Endorses Junta Leader Prayuth As PM
Stampede At Pre-Dawn Hindu Holy Procession Kills Ten
Macau Police Arrest Five Over Informal Democracy Poll
PM Abe Visits Hiroshima Slide Site



BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: Nikki Finke Goes Silent In Reported Legal Dispute With Penske Media
American Thinker: Airborne Transmission Of Ebola
BLACKFIVE: America’s Junior Varsity Leadership
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin’s Innocuous, Non-Political Ice-Bucket Video Brings Out The Haters
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, August 22
Jammie Wearing Fools: Democrat Congressman Promises “Problem In The Streets” If He Doesn’t Get So-Called “Justice” In Ferguson
Joe For America: Milwaukee’s Sheriff Clarke Says Eric Holder Needs To Apologize To Cops
JustOneMinute: And Not Just The Usual Critics, Either
Protein Wisdom: Don’t You Dare “Parentify” Your Children, You Monster!
Shot In The Dark: The MNGOP’s Judicial Goat Rodeo
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – California Goodies Reactions
The Gateway Pundit: Westboro Baptist Church Accepts Offer To Fly To Baghdad For Protest
The Jawa Report: Hamas Splodey Dopes Courtesy Of The Juice
The Lonely Conservative: Rick Perry Sure Is Making The Most Out Of That Mugshot
This Ain’t Hell: Limited War Woes
Weasel Zippers: Obama Delayed Foley Rescue Attempt For Over A Month
Megan McArdle: Don’t Let That Fancy New House Fool You


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Peaches En Regalia

Posted on | August 24, 2014 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Welcome once again to Rule 5 Sunday, which is all about the appreciation of the female form as a break from the wretchedness of popular culture and the annoyances of politics. Bear in mind that some of the links below are to pics decidedly NSFW, and readers should exercise care as to where & when they click.

Randy’s Roundtable leads off this week with Kaley Cuoco Sweeting, followed by Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism contributes Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and First Street Journal takes things in a slightly different direction with American female soldiers Living The #Glamour Life. Also, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot chips in with a Rule 5 Linkfest featuring Jessica Alba!

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes robots, Emma Watson, Queen Hillary, Sarah Jessica Parker,  Jessica Alba and Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Flashdance, French, Marie Larf, Lauren Hanley, and Padma Lakshmi.

Postaldog offers Shannon Elizabeth, Alyssa Arce, Lily Allen, Cora Deitz, Adrienne Palicki & Lucy Lawless, Selena Gomez, and Hilary Duff.

A View from the Beach returns from vacation with Adriana Karembeu, The Changing Room, Student Arrested Over Dinosaur Killing Fantasy (cavegirls!), Dutch Treat, Eat Mo Fish!, Just Don’t Scare the Birds!, Even More Excuses to Go Fishing, Stop Fracking for Russia’s Sake, and Snakes Do It, Why Not Katy Perry?.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Nicole Murphy, his Vintage Babe is Lili St. Cyr, Sex in Advertising is covered by Guess, and since we’re in the preseason, we have the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway and  Hayley Hasselhoff.

Thanks to everyone for their links! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat for next weekend’s Rule 5 Roundup is midnight on Saturday, August 30.

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: What’cha Gonna Do?

Posted on | August 24, 2014 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

My Official #Ferguson Commentary

It’s Almost As Though They Have A Script Sitting In Wait, Or Something

Rule 5 Sunday: Dirty Denim

The Bloody Cost of Failure

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.22.14

Reality TV Mom Gets 10 Years in Prison

FMJRA 2.0: Call Me

Feminism as Rationalization

Kimberlin Trial: The ‘Yuck’ Factor

“Mokita”

When All Else Fails, Paul Ryan, Try Liberty

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.18.14

Arkansas Teacher, 57, Gets Probation After Lesbian Molestation of Girl, 16

American Journalist James Foley Beheaded by Islamic Terrorists

A Statement To Ponder

Celebrity Feminist Emma Watson Says Something Really Stupid on Twitter

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.19.14

A Lesbian Feminist Horror Movie

You Lost Me at Marx, Gail Dines

Go For The Fundraiser, Perry

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.20.14

Feminism Repeats Itself, the First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce

Ferguson Question For The Gungrabbers

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.21.14

Perverts and Predators and the Celebrities Who Advocate for Their Rights

The Madness of ‘Gender Theory’

Enlisting Alice Cooper To Respond To The Prospect Of Another Romney Candidacy

Shoot It. Shoot It In The Head.

Top linkers this week:

  1. Batshit Crazy News (25)
  2. That Mr. G Guy (20)
  3. Regular Right Guy (11)

Thanks to everyone for their linakgery! Submission deadline for the Labor Day Weekend FMJRA is noon on Saturday, August 30.


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Category: FMJRA Award

Don’t Even Bore Me, Webb

Posted on | August 24, 2014 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Via Breitbart:

Democrat Jim Webb, the former Virginia Senator who has been coy about a potential 2016 presidential run…

Given the debacle that the VA GOP has become with the McDonnell trial, I’m about a third of the way toward forgiving Webb for switching parties in ’06, and the whole macaca-quiddick debacle.

However, the ObamaCare vote is an unpardonable collaboration with the enemy, of a magnitude comparable to Macho Grande. Fall off the planet, Webb.

Category: Democrats

Reading Feminist Theory …

Posted on | August 23, 2014 | 124 Comments

. . . so you don’t have to!

Shulamith Firestone, circa 1970

“Women are an oppressed class. Our oppression is total, affecting every facet of our lives. We are exploited as sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor. We are considered inferior beings, whose only purpose is to enhance men’s lives. . . . Our prescribed behavior is enforced by the threat of physical violence. . . .
“We identify the agents of our oppression as men. . . .
“We regard our personal experience, and our feelings about that experience, as the basis for an analysis of our common situation. We cannot rely on existing ideologies as they are all products of male supremacist culture. We question every generalization and accept none that are not confirmed by our experience.”
— Redstockings, “Manifesto,” July 7, 1969

There was a nice boost of tip-jar hitters last week, mostly in response to the complete triumph over Brett Kimberlin in the Maryland state lawsuit. Somewhere, there is online audio of the trial testimony, including me reading from “How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog.” Readers have also been both patient and generously encouraging with my “Sex Trouble” series about radical feminism. Putting together these long articles (some of them over 2,000 words in length) is time-consuming, because of the amount of research involved. Ultimately, I plan to compile and edit this series into an ebook, but for now, I’m getting so deep into the research that I’m sure I’ve already read more of this stuff than the average Women’s Studies major.

Today, I ordered $108 worth of feminist books from Amazon, including two early classics, Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics and Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex. I’d previously read extensive excerpts of these, but I want to have them both in their dead-tree entirety, simply because that’s how I work best. I’ve also ordered books by lesbian feminists Jill Johnston, Marilyn Frye, Sue Wilkinson and Dana Heller, as well as Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives by radical feminist psychologist Dee Graham.

That last title is important, in terms of the theme of my series, because Graham’s ideas about male “Sexual Terror” provided much of theory behind Radical Wind’s anti-heterosexual rant, “PIV is always rape, OK?” She expanded on Graham’s theory in August 2013:

No woman is heterosexual. What men call heterosexuality is an institution where men make women captive for PIV, to control our reproductive functions and steal our labour. Heterosexuality, or sexuality with men does not exist, because the only relationship to men that exists is men’s violence, physical and mental invasion — one that men have so well crafted and disguised for so long that we can mistake it for attraction, sexual urges or love. All women’s “attraction” to men is 100% eroticised trauma bonding / stockholm syndrome. There is no other form of attraction to men possible than that. None.

This is a categorical claim; one must either agree or disagree. Radical Wind cites Dee Graham by name four times in this single post, elaborating on the esoteric meaning of Graham’s theory:

All women are prisoners and hostages to men’s world. Men’s world is like a vast prison or concentration camp for women. This isn’t a metaphor, it’s reality. Each man is a threat. We can’t escape men. We are forced to depend on men and male infrastructures for our survival.

Radical Wind says women “are programmed and groomed to react in this way to male threat since birth,” part of what she calls her “female child-grooming theory,” which leads (by the inherent logic of the crazy premises she establishes along the way) to the conclusion that women’s feeling of attraction and emotional bonds to men are actually symptomatic of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Now, there are two things immediately obvious from her claims:

  1. She is comparing the development of heterosexual orientation in women to the way in which pedophiles “groom” their child-victims. Does anyone believe this insulting comparison is accidental? No, of course not. She clearly means to suggest that male sexual interest in women is morally analogous to a pedophile’s interest in children, and that women are victimized by men in the same way that children are victimized by sex offenders.
  2. Any woman who does not reject heterosexuality, who thinks of her own sexual and romantic interest in males as natural and healthy, is suffering from a sort of psychiatric delusion. If a woman believes she genuinely enjoys sex with men, if she is “in love” with her male partner, this simply shows that she is a victim of PTSD — “trauma bonding” — and childhood “grooming.”

Radical Wind makes these arguments with such fanatical certainty that, as I say, we must either agree or disagree. Compromise is impossible.

There is an undeniably totalitarian quality to her ideological rigidity; she declares her doctrines in the manner of a dictator issuing an ultimatum. And if you disagree — as I think every sane person must —  you might say to yourself, “Well, that’s just one kook on the Internet.”

Except you’re wrong. She’s not alone in believing this. In 2011, a radical feminist known as CherryBlossomLife cited Dee Graham in asking, “Can Women Escape From Men?” The answer was no, and you can go check the comments to see whether any of her feminist readers disagreed with her radical analysis. She was enthusiastically praised:

“First of all,that’s an excelent post Cherry!. . “

“Thanks, Cherry, for summarizing this. . . .”

“Courageous post. Keep telling the truth! I really wish womyn understood that it’s in their best interest to leave men. . . .”

“Fantastic, measured, informative post – as always, Cherry. Thanks so much for taking the time to write this. . . .”

Are there feminists who disagree with this extreme anti-male doctrine? Where are they? Where are the harsh denunciations of radical feminism from “moderate” feminists? And if they don’t denounce such extremism, aren’t they tacitly endorsing it?

Moderate feminism is a myth. One might as well believe in unicorns or leprechauns as to believe in moderate feminism. What feminists believe today, what they will believe tomorrow and forever, is the same thing that Shulamith Firestone’s group Redstockings declared in 1969: “Women are an oppressed class. . . . We identify the agents of our oppression as men.” The minute a woman says that she does not believe this — if she rejects the claim that men (collectively) oppress women (collectively) under the system of male domination known as patriarchy — then she is not actually a feminist, no matter what she may call herself.

If there are, however, women who call themselves “feminist” who wish to argue against the anti-male/anti-heterosexual doctrines of radical feminism, how would they go about making such arguments? With facts? With logic? With empirical data? Impossible!

“We regard our personal experience, and our
feelings about that experience, as the basis
for an analysis of our common situation.”

If each woman’s own “personal experiences” and her “feelings about that experience” are the only possible basis for analysis, there can be no objectivity, no neutral facts, no empirical method.

If it is her experience that 2 + 2 = 5, if a woman feels that 2 + 2 = 5, then anyone who says 2 + 2 = 4 is obviously trying to enslave her to the oppressive mathematics of male supremacy.

Feminism tells women that if they feel oppressed, they are oppressed. If a woman doesn’t feel oppressed, feminism tells her she’s wrong.

Flip a coin: Heads, feminists win. Tails, you’re a victim of the patriarchy.

+ – + – + – + – +

At any rate, the folks at Amazon — greedy capitalist exploiters! — demanded that I pay actual money for those feminist books, refusing to accept my Patriarchal Express Platinum Card. Therefore, in order to continue my campaign of male supremacist oppression, I must remind you of the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!




 

 

THE ‘SEX TROUBLE’ SERIES:

 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

The Silent Terror: Media Ignoring Islamic Radical’s Murder of Seattle Gay Men?

Posted on | August 23, 2014 | 66 Comments

Ali Muhammad Brown is a suspected Islamic terrorist accused of murdering three men in Seattle and a New Jersey teenager:

The man accused of killing a New Jersey teenager and three other men as retribution for U.S. military action in the Middle East could eventually be charged with terrorism offenses, according to a national security expert.
William C. Banks, Director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University, said that if the details of a confession by Ali Muhammad Brown described in court papers filed in Washington state Wednesday are accurate, he could face additional charges at either the state or federal level.
“If he’s got the motivation that he announced he has, which is to exact revenge for the U.S. killing of Muslims in that part of the world, he’s a terrorist,” Banks said. “It’s a matter of motivation.”
Brown, 29, has been in custody at the Essex County Jail in Newark since July 18 on charges related to the murder of Brendan Tevlin, a 19-year-old college student from Livingston who was shot eight times as he drove through West Orange on his way home June 25.
Authorities in Washington have also charged him with a trio of slayings, including the shooting deaths of two gay men in Seattle on June 1, and the death of another man whose body was found on a highway in an unincorporated area outside the city April 27.
Court documents detailing the charges in the April killing, made public on Wednesday, include statements from Brown indicating that he carried out the killings as “vengeance” for the loss of innocent lives killed as a result of American military operations in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and other parts of the Islamic world.
“All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life,” he said, according to the documents.

Brown was investigated for terrorism a decade ago:

Brown was part of a ring of men in South Seattle that were arrested by FBI terrorism agents in 2004 and under suspicion of funding terror groups. The feds convicted Brown and some of the other men on bank fraud charges.
“The FBI was unable to actually make a terrorism conviction,” said David Gomez — the former head of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Seattle.
Agents couldn’t prove the money was being used to finance terrorist operations.
The group was led by Ruben Shumpert, who owned Crescent Cuts Barbershop, which the FBI raided in 2004.
He was the first in the ring to turn talk about fighting America into action.
Shumpert skipped out on this federal sentencing in 2006 and was later believe to have been killed fighting for the terrorist organization al-Shabab in Somalia. He was reportedly killed fighting US backed forces in Somalia.
Now, Brown is suspected of killing in the name of Jihad.

Authorities say two of Brown’s Seattle victims were homosexuals he met using a popular meet-up application for smartphones:

The bodies of two gay men, 27-year-old Ahmed Said and 23-year-old Dwone Anderson-Young were found in the early morning hours of [June 1] not far from Seattle’s Capitol Hill gayborhood. According to police, they were both executed by Brown no more than 17 minutes after they had picked him up via a social networking app near a popular gay bar in town.
Both victims were shot in the head and police say there was no evidence of a struggle, robbery, exchange of drugs or any other type of crime. Neither of the victims had a criminal history, leading police to believe the crime was motivated exclusively by hate. . . .
Though court documents don’t directly implicate Grindr as the app used by the victims in this case, a friend of Said’s is quoted telling police officers that Said was texting frequently on “an app like Grindr or Jack’d” before his murder.

When the Seattle murders were first reported, nobody seems to have realized that Brown had previously been investigated in connection with an Islamic terrorism conspiracy. If Brown’s crimes were “motivated exclusively by hate,” what kind of hate?

Noah Rothman at Hot Air suggests the national media is ignoring Brown’s murder spree precisely because it is Islamic terrorism. Certainly, if these killings had been committed by anyone who could be portrayed as “right-wing,” there would be wall-to-wall coverage on CNN and MSNBC, liberal blogs would be going crazy and President Obama would be welcoming the families of the victims at the White House. But that’s not happening, is it?

The Matthew Sheppard killing had something to teach us. There were many, many reports about that. It was the most infamous single American murder of that decade.
In this case, three gay men were murdered. Three.
Not even a blip on the national news radar screens.

You know what this reminds me of? The “Asian rape gang” phenomenon.

Schoolgirls in England, some as young as 12, were basically being “groomed,” seduced and pimped out by gangs of Islamic men. (In Britain, “Asian” is a term used to describe immigrants or the children of immigrants from Pakistan or wherever, most of whom are Muslim.) These stories made tabloid headlines, but the respectable “mainstream” media was hopelessly gagged by political correctness and the fear of being perceived as racist or “Islamophobic.” However, despite this self-imposed blackout by the respectable press, everyone in England knows what is really happening. The subhuman status assigned to women in Islamic cultures is certainly no secret, yet British feminists were suspiciously mute about the rape gangs.

There is a conspiracy of silence, you see, which includes both gay activists in America and feminists in England, to suppress the brutal truth about Islamic jihad and what it really means. Why is this? Because the gay-rights movement and the feminist movement are both part of the progressive Left, which aims to destroy Western civilization — and Islam is their ally in that regard.

 

Category: Crime, Islam, Media Bias, New Jersey, Terrorism, Washington State

Heh

Posted on | August 23, 2014 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Category: Uncategorized

As A Politically Incorrect Aside. . .

Posted on | August 23, 2014 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

I agree that it’s a cheap shot to go after constituencies based upon sexual preference:

Luz Elena Sanín, a member of the Popular Party, has been condemned for her “homophobic comments” after her controversial defence of the austerity measures introduced by Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister.
Mrs Sanín insisted that the measures were necessary to pay back the debt run up by the previous socialist government’s policy of “subsidising NGOs and homosexuals”.
She claimed that the government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the former prime minister, had forced the national debt to surpass a record €1?trillion (£800?billion) with “his favours” to the gay community.

My question has to do with their response:

Members of Spain’s opposition socialist party and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual groups have called her words “a breeding ground for homophobia”.

How would they recognize a breeding ground? #JustSayin

Category: Gays
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